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All Adrienne wants is a baby. Is that too much to ask? Unable to have one of her own, she and husband Gabe have jumped through every hoop to make their dream come true. And it almost happened once. Now that chance is here once again, and Adrienne’s not about to let this one slip away. She’ll do anything to make it happen. Even if the birth mother’s demands seem a bit….unusual.

So Leah moves in with Adrienne and Gabe. And they craft a most nontraditional agreement. Not only will she live with them for a year following the birth of the baby, she’ll also wait until the end of that year to sign the baby over to them. Oh and she gets an allowance of several hundred dollars a month. If that’s what it takes, though, Adrienne will do it even if Gabe is a bit less enthusiastic.

When the baby is born, she goes to increasingly sneaky lengths to keep the baby from Leah. Meanwhile, Leah’s starting to pull away from Adrienne and form more of a bond with Gabe. And then the baby daddy shows up, throwing everything into a tailspin.

There’s so much more going on with this book. Leah has a secretive past. Something bad happened with the previous birth mother, although we don’t find out the full details until the very end. I have to say, I didn’t like any of these characters. But in this case, that’s okay. I think that was the author’s point. A great little suspense of a story!